Pella
IA 50219
USA
2017 Iowa Choral Directors Summer Symposium July 24 – 28th
Lillie Feierabend
INTENTIONAL MOVEMENT IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM
Movement is an integral part of being musical; worthy of the same explicit and intentional instruction devoted to the literacy component of our curriculum. This lively session shares strategies and techniques to enhance the movement component while involving students in our folk music heritage of songs, dances, and singing games.
VOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG CHILDREN
For young children, tuneful singing is the marriage of tuneful thinking and physiological awareness. The child must be able to first “catch the tune” and then reproduce it in head voice. This lively session shares strategies and techniques that are developmentally appropriate while remaining wonderfully childlike; playful, imaginary and fun.
MANAGEMENT: THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL TEACHING
Music educators spend a great deal of time developing, designing and delivering good lessons. Classroom management should also be the product of thoughtful and sequential design. This session shares strategies that help promote active learning by establishing routines so the focus can be on the musical growth of each student
Go to this link to download handouts for these sessions:http://www.giamusic.com/bios/lillie-feierabend
Lillie Feierabend is known for her work with young children and instilling a love of music within them. She has been an early childhood and general music educator for over thirty years and a conductor for the Connecticut Children’s Chorus for seventeen. She has twice been honored with her district’s Teacher of the Year Award and in 2008 also received the Outstanding Elementary Music Educator Award from the Connecticut Music Educators Association. Lillie is a frequent clinician at local, state and national conferences, where she presents sessions on music and movement development. She also teaches weeklong workshops, conducts regional honors choirs and is adjunct faculty at the University of Hartford. Lillie Feierabend is a member of CMEA, NAfME, OAKE and ACDA.